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More than a year and a half after the attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, House Democ stanley cup rats say they ve had enough of Republicans partisan investigation into stanley polska the incident. In a letter sent Wednesday, all 17 Democrats on the House Oversight Committee asked the panel s chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to end his probe of the attack and to focus instead on responsible oversight that helps protect overseas diplomats. Four Americans were killed in the attack in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, including then-Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. To date, the Committee s investigation has been characterized by wild and unsubstantiated political accusations that turn out to be completely inaccurate after further investigation, wrote the Democrats, led by the committee s ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md. We believe it is time to end these seemingly endless and unsubstantiated political attacks and direct the Committee s efforts toward concrete and lasting reforms. The letter cited several of Issa s statements on Benghazi that were deemed false by fact-checking organizations, bemoaning the reckl stanley cup ess pattern of launching wholly unfounded accusations on national television that has undermined the credibility of our Committee and the seriousness of our work. Hillary Clinton: Benghazi is my Mdwz Romney s Speech
In a letter sent to President Bush today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev. , joined by other Democratic leaders, are urging the president stanley kaffeebecher to seek a bipartisan solution to the problems in Iraq rather than simply leaving it for the next Commander-in-Chief to resolve.The Democrats are suggesting a four-point solution to the currentsituation in Iraq and theMiddle East at large: 1 the United States must urgently seek political accommodation among Iraqis and transition the U.S. mission in Iraq ; 2 Bush must return American armed forces to the highest state of readiness in order to deal with future military conflicts; 3 do more to stabilize both Afghanistan and Pakistan;and4 he must tackle broader challenges of regional stability by addressing the threat posed by Iran, as well workWith Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker scheduled to testify before House and Senate committees next week on the situation inside that troubled stanley borraccia country, Pelosi and Reid are u stanley cups uk rging Bush to revise his war policy and begin to transition U.S. forces from Iraq. They also want him to renew a diplomatic initiative with Iran and seek means to strengthen Israel s security. The Democratsalso took a veiled shot at Sen. John McCain R-Ariz. , the presumptive GOP presidential candidate and strong supporter of Bush s handling of Iraq, for suggesting that U.S. forces may remain |
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